re: What was your hardest interview?

Gulf States Toyota for a sales job

I had to take some test that was 3 hours of shite like this. By 1.5 hour into it had completely checked out, then they had me interview with a couple of teammates. It was a shite show, i knew i bombed the test so i just winged the interviews and just wanted to leave

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Forbes brought the heat when they quizzed me over my Cayman Islands enterprises. Nothing a shot of Macallan Lalique Six Pillars couldn’t fix!

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I found your answers to how you deal with your planes butler when he doesn't get the bubbles in your champaign right to be quite riveting indeed. I was able to implement it with Charles and have noticed it to be very productive.

She had coal black hair and green eyes and an Irish accent.

I was plenty hard that interview.

I did not get that job but she gave me a job that made up for it.

Went through 4 rounds of interviews for a corporate job with Entergy out of college. Put a ton of time and effort into preparing for all of them, only to be told they were looking for someone with more experience. Something they knew I didn't have in the first interview.

Remember that these interviewers don't necessarily enjoy doing interviews. So make it easy for them.

Come prepared with questions. In my experience, when a prospect asks things like "What's the team like?" and "What will I be doing the first few weeks?" it can transition the interviewer into thinking, okay, this is someone who is ready to get started.

With Deloitte for an internship while I was in college. Interviewer tried to bully me. I told him don’t hire me lol

Mine wasn't necessarily "hard," but it will forever stand out in my mind as the most "impossible" interview experience I ever had.

I was about 23 or 24 at the time, and the full interview was pretty lengthy for such a position, about half a day IIRC. I interviewed with about 4 different people over the span of 4 hours.

Everything was going fine until my last interview which was with the VP over the area I'd be working in.

It started off normal enough, but then he asked me why I wanted the job. In what I thought was a reasonable answer, I replied that I'm just starting my career, and want to learn more about the industry. The position description matches my degree and skillset, and that the company seems like a great place to work.

Well, that wasn't good enough apparently. He then asks "why do you really want this job?"

I'm sitting there thinking "dude, WTF more do you want from me?"

It got awkwardly personal, I reiterated that the industry was of interest to me, and why I chose my major in the first place. But he kept prodding me. It went so far as to me saying "Uhhhh, I suppose in the grand scheme of things, I want this job to be able to support a wife and kids and watch them grow up with a secure future."

And the whole time he's just sitting there with a condescending smile on his face, as if there's some sort of secret password to work for his company that I have no hope of guessing.

I didn't get the job. And that experience made me despise people who use their authority or decision-making capacity to play bullshite games of keep-away.

Stryker. They wanted to know what position I played on the LSU football team. I busted out laughing and apparently that wasn’t appreciated.

The state police interview was pretty stressful. Panel interview with 15 to 20 people sitting at a U shaped table with a little desk in the middle for you to answer the questions from. That was after the PT portion, polygraph and Psych interview.

They asked if I had experience with about 9 different items and every answer was "no."

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